Re: [Visualpython-users] Importing/Mouse Events

[Michael Z. K. <mz...@an...>]

So there is a Python VRML97 parser at
http://members.home.com/mcfletch/programming/mcf_vrml.htm

which looks promising.  If I have time this weekend I was thinking about
writing a simple VRML importer (i.e. - primative->primatve ) to VPython
although if you want to do this
for graduate work be my guest it would prob. work better.

-michael

On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Ari Heitner wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 12:31:30PM -0400, Ryan Martens wrote:
> > I'm new to VPython, and must add that I'm quite impressed.  I'm currently
> > developing a program for defining 3D systems for simulations, and need
> > software for viewing and working with the 3D models (primarily viewing
> > though).  I was wondering how the internal geometry is stored in VPython. 
> > Is there a way that this data can be manipulated, such as when importing
> > data from other file formats?  In my program, systems will intiially be
> > defined as bodies consisting of simple objects, but when CAD drawings
> > become available, it would be ideal to be able to import more complex
> > objects to replace these simple objects.
> 
> right now the only Visual objects are geometric primitives; there isn't any
> way to import models from a CAD program. This is a deficiency and one I'd
> love to fix. There's a small chance I'll do it this coming semester (for
> credit needed to graduate, so I'll hvae some chance of getting it done).
> 
> > Furthermore, is there a way to capture events such as mouse clicks
> > (primarily the right mouse button), and get the mouse position.  I would
> > need to override the default response of rotation.
> 
> look at the stonehenge demo program for a way of overriding the default
> navigation system.
> 
> 
> 
> cheers,
> ari
> 
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